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As mentioned, any distro with support would be best for a business server. Check out some of the offerings by going to distrowatch.com. There's a lot to keep up with but the "old" standards like RedHat, Suse, and Debian are all great offerings. I like Ubuntu for desktop and light server use.
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For any kind of commercial or mission critical use, best to use something with a support contract. Redhat and SUSE were both mentioned. It also depends on what you and your sysadmins are most familiar with. There is a pretty heavy learning curve for the different classifications of Linux (Redhat vs. Debian for example).

As a personal use it is better to use Fedora or LinuxXP cause its graphics is super just looks like windows, but if it is the question of use for business related the best choice is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (any flavour specifically > than 10.3). SLES has so many way and has very easy to use.....

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